When asked to design a rather conventional office building for the headquarters complex of the newspaper group Tamedia, in central Zurich, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban decided to support his entire seven-story structure with an exposed timber frame. Workers fitted the laminated Austrian-spruce components together without any metal connectors whatsoever, hammering the rounded ends of the beams into place on the columns with large soft-headed mallets.
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